Amy Sequenzia

Amy Sequenzia is a non-speaking autistic woman with cerebral palsy and seizure disorder, but the last thing she needs is your pity and the last thing she wants is to be your “inspiration.” Amy is proud of who she is: a writer, an activist, a difference maker. And she is also proudly autistic, to the point that when asked, “If you could wave a magic wand and make your autism ‘disappear,’ would you?” she replies, “I would break the wand before anyone could wave it.” Amy has synesthesia and experiences music as color. Music also enables her to experience bodily sensations that she claims would otherwise be unavailable to her. “I am usually not very aware of my body,” she writes. “To simply get up from a chair is sometimes hard, as if my body forgets how to move . . . . So when I feel the music inside my body, when I feel my blood running with the music, it is an amazing thing.”